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REMARKS ON ABYSSINIA.
I To the Editors of the Jewish Expositor.
I I Gentlemen, —In your last number, p. 336,
■our correspondent says, that the inlerest-
H)g country of Abyssinia should now meet
ißith great regard from the Christian world,
find mentions Bruce’s account of the queen
Hf the south (or Sheba, as it is called in the 1
Bible) having had a son by Solomon. I
Have often wondered that this most inter
filing country to the race of Israel, and
Bruce’s account of it, has never been men-
Honed before in the pages of your Jewish
Hxpositor. Bruce says, that the queen of
Hheba had a son by Solomon who was call-
Hd Menileck, or Menilech, by his mother,
Hut he was called David by Solomon.—
H'his prince Menilech was during his infan-
By nursed by bis mother, but when grown
was sent to Solomon to be educated,
Hmd when he returned home to Abyssinia,
ptfeere went with him many of the prin-
Bgfs and great men of Judah, and also Azari
■ the son of Zadoc, the high priest. Af-
Hl 1 ’ ‘he death of his mother, this prince
Henilech ruled over the Abyssinians, and
B being educated in the Jewish religion,
H his subjects became converts, and pro-
H'<‘d the Jewish rrligion till the year 333
■ Christ, when a Greek Christian, naviga
ilfi the,lied sea with an intent to go to In
!SH, anrt having with him two adopted sons
IjHwh/m he had given a good education,
wrecked on the Abyssinian coast;
[■’ old man was killed in a skirmish with
tHf natives, the young men were made
■tiling a youth of great abilities, was made
to the young prince of Abyssinia,
when first introduced to the prince he
Hmd him reading of the Psalms of David,
Hd persuaded the prince to become a
Hri.-liun, and all the Abyssinians followed
Hi example of their prince, and became
Hiistians, (so that Christianity has been
Hifessed in Abyssinia near 1500 years.)
IHiere were at that time a great many
fivs in Abyssinia, who refused to abandon
religion of their forefathers, so assem
jjHffl together on the mountain of Samen,*
|H< chose themselves a king of the tribe of
and of the race of Solomon ; the
of this prince wyas Phineas, and from
H> their sovereigns are lineally descend-
H r Fhe race of the high-priest still oon
jtimies to be priest to the Jews in Abyssinia,
it.be genealogies of both kings and priests
igpng preserved there with great care. So
H|lr the prophecy delivered byJeremiah in
H| xxxiiid chapter, respecting the race of
Hnvid and the Levites, has never been for-
Hpten by the Lord, but has been exactly
fib itied.
race of Solomon by the queen of
Heba continues to reign over the Abyssin
■K the records of which country are care
er The mountains of Abyssinia are difficult of
■ess, but their tops are delightful plains, and
H chiefly the cultivated parts of the country,
: ■ valleys being deluged with rain one part of
ffi year, and parched up by the heat of the sun
’ isl other.
THE MISSIONARY.
fully preserved. Bruce enumerates the
names of all the kings, with the time they
reigned over the ever'since the
time of Menilech,the immediate descendant
of Solomon, so that the king of the Jews in
Abyssinia, and the king of the Abyssinians,
are, both, descendants of Solomon. The
number of the Jews in Abyssinia are about
one hundred thousand; the ensign of the
Abyssinians is the lion of the tribe of Judah.
Peter Heylyn, who wrote his Cosmography
in the year 1687, one hundred years before
Bruce was in Abyssinia, says, That the
Ethiopian emperours conceive themselves
to be sprung from Solomon and Maqueda
the queen of the south, and that the arms
of this kingdom are the same with those of
the tribe of Judah, which are, a Lion ram
pant in a field Or, and that the motto of
them is to this effect; The lion of the tribe
of Judah shall overcome.
The prophet Jeremiah, chap, xxxiii. 17,
says, For thus saith the Lord, David shalj
never want a man to sit upon the throne of
the house of Israel, neither shall the priests
the Levites, want a man before me to offer
burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings,
& to do sacrifice continually. And the word
of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Thus saith the Lord, If ye can break my
covenant of the day, and my covenant of
the night, and that there should not be day
and night in theirseason, then may also my
covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he should not have a son to reign up
on his throne; and with the Levites the
priests, my ministers. As the host of hea
ven cannot be numbered, neither the sand
of the sea measured, so will I multiply the
seed of David my servant, and the Levites
that minister unto me. Thus saith the
Lord, if my covenant be not with day and
night, and ifl.have not appointed the ordi
nances of heaven and earth, (hen will? cast
away thf> seed of Jacob and David my ser
vant, so that I will not take any of his seed,
to be rulers over the seed of Abrahiwn,
Isaac and Jacob; for 1 will cause their cap
livity to return, and have mercy on them.
It is generally supposed that the race of
David and (he race of Aaron are not now
to be found, and that their genealogies are
lost; but if we believe the prophet Jere
miah, that is never to be the case ; and as
the seed of David is destined by the Lord
to reign over the united kingdoms of Israel
and Judah, whenever it shall please the
Most High to restore them to their own
country; it is a most wonderful interposi
tion of Providence to preserve this seed
pure and unmixed with other nations in a
remote corner of the world till God’s ap
pointed time, so that no dispute shall arisp
who<shail be king when the whole race of
Israel shall be called to the land of their
fathers.
The prophet Isaiah, chap, xviii. says,
that “ a present shall be sent from Ethiopia
to the place of the name of the Lord of
Hosts, the mount Zion.” Is not this king
dom of Jews to be the present ? No nation
beside Ethiopia or Abyssinia, can send so
valuable a present to Mount Zion.
The royal Psalmist says, “ The kings of
Tarshish and of the isles shall bring pres
ents, the kings of Sheba anclSeba shall offer
gifts,” Ps. Ixxii. 10. “ From beyond the
rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the
daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine
offering. Behold, at that time, I will undo
all that afflict thee, and 1 will save her that
haltelh, and gather her that was driven
out, and I will gat them praise and fame in
every land where (hey have been put to
shame. At that time I will bring you again,
even in the time that I “gather you : for i
will make you a name and a praise among
all people of the earth, when I turn back
your.captivity before vour eyes, saith the
Lord.”—Zeph. iii. 10. 19, 20.
The xviii chapter of Naiab is thought by
some commentators to contain an obsciirp
prophecy, but some thing-* having been
lately made known in this country, it ap
pears now very clear. The prophet act
dressing the country says, “ Ho( land !
shadowing with wiDgs,* which is beyond
the rivers of Ethiopia. That sendeth am
bassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes! upon the waters, saying, Go, ye
swift messengers, to a nation scattered and
peeled, to a people terrible from their be
ginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden dowD, whose lands the rivers have
spoiled.J All ye inhabitants of the world
* The land shadowing with wings. The Ethi
opians have spread their wings over and protect
ed the Jews, whilst other nations were destroying
them; they have not ouly protected them, but
given them possession b( part of their country to
dwell in, in which the Jews have enjoyed with
out interruption, their law*, manners and cus
toms, under a regal state, having for kings, prin
ces of the race of David, and priests of the race
of Aaron.
t Vessels of Bulrushes. The Nile was navigat
ed anciently in vessels of bulrushes, as we read in
the Bible, that Moses was exposed in an ark or
vessel made of bulrushes. The vessel in which
Bruce navigated the Red Sea had a sail, or mat,
made of bulrushes.
J Whose lands the rivers have spoiled. The
prophet twice in his xviiith chapter says, that
the nation who shadowed with wings the people
meted out and trodden under foot, was a land
that the rivers had spoiled; he says, it is Iseyond
the rivers of Cush or Ethiopia, which is the Nile.
Ethiopia was peopled by the descendants of
Cush, and was, in very early,, times, the most
learned people upon earth. Tha Chronicle of
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesus Christ.
MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, MAY 6, 122.
and dwellers on the earth see ye, when he
lifteth up an ensign on the mountain; and
when he bloweth a trumpet hear ye.* In
that time shall the present be brought untQ
the Lord of Hosts of a people scattered and
peeled, and from a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted
out aDd trodden under foot, whose lands the
rivers have spoiled, to the place of the
name of the Lord of Hosts, the Mount
Zion.” I am, &c. C. HALL.
Axtim (the first city built by the Cushites) is the
most ancient repository of the antiquities of that
country, a book esteemed as the first in authority
after the Holy Scripture; it says, that Ethiopia
was not inhabited till 1808 years before Christ,
and 200 years after that it was laid waste by a
flood, the face of the country much changed and
deformed,so that it was denominated Oure Midre,
or the country laid waste. Other historians speak
of this flood in Ethiopia also, and it must have
been well known in the time of Isaiah.
* The prophet Isaiah commands our particular
attention to the time when the ensign is lifted up
on the mountain, and when the trumpet is blow
ing, we are to listen and hear. The ensign is ac
tually lifted up, and the trumpet is blowing. This
ensign is the Jewish scriptures which is sent and
lifted up in sight of all nations, and the sound of
the Bible is gone out to all lands, and its words to
the ends of the world ; so that we may fully ex
pect according to the express declaration of the
prophet, that the present of a people scattered
and peeled, and a nation meted out and trodden
under foot, will, ere long, be brought to the place
of the name of the Lord of Hosts, the Mount
Zion.
The Rev. G. S. Faber, in a letter to me, does
not believe that Ethiopia is the country meant by
the prophet Isaiah from which a present is to be
sent to Mowut Zion, because the prophet shouts
to a country beyond the rivers of Cush; but 1
have seen the writings of a commentator on the
prophecies, who says, that the words in the ori
ginal may be rendered on, or upon, the rivers of
Ethiopia, so that we should read, “ Ho, land !
shadowing with wings, that is upon the rivers of
Ethiopia.” *
Mr. Faber is also of opinion, (hat the English
ships will have a part in restoring or carrying the ,
outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah to
the land of their fathers, which is by no means
improbable.
Dr. Clark and Mr. Cripps his companion, in
the course of their travels, examined an Abyssin
ian literati, who confirmed to them in every re
spect, Bruce’s wonderful account of that coun
ty-
We have but just now been favoured with the
Minutes of “ The North Carolina Baptist Society
for Foreign anti Domestick Missions,” which con
vened at the Cross Roads Meeting-House, Wake
County, North Carolina, on Monday Aug. 6th,
1821, from which we copy the Circular below.
The officers for the present year are, Rev. Geo.
Roberts, President. Col. Charles M'AUester, V.
President and Treasurer. Rev. A. W. Clopton,
Corresponding Secretary. Gurdon Robins, Re
cording Secretary. Rev. John Picrifoy, Auditor.
Board of Trustees —Rev. John Landers, Messrs.
M. Neal, Gurdon Robins, Joel Battle, J. Roberts,
P. Neal, E. W. Brown.
The next meeting of this Society is to be held
in Raleigh, on Saturday before the first Lord’s
Day in August ensuing.
CIRCULAR LETTER.
To the Friends of God's Spiritual Zion, and
all who wish well to the Heathen in our
own, and other countries, and to the desti
tute neighbourhoods in our own State :
Beloved friends and fellow-citizens—
We hope it is now, and ever has been,
our greatest care to seek the honour of our
Divine Saviour, and the interest of man
kind ; in order to promote which, we have
been striving to propagate the Gospel of the
Son of God, not only in our individual capa
cities, but to make collections, and to meet
annually for the purpose of uniting our en
ergies to send the word of life to the most
destitute regions wherever we could find
access. We hare, and do still think it our
duty, to aid our brethren of the General
Board, in their laudable undertaking, to
send Missionaries among the heathen in
foreign countries, but especially in our own
wilderness.—We hope the time is not far
distant, when a good and gracious God, will
do great things for our red brethren in
America. It is peculiar pleasure we
hear of the progress of Indian schools, as
well as other Missionary labours of our be
loved brother Posey among the Chero
kees; also the exertions of our dear breth
ren at the Great Crossing in Kentucky, to
gether with a number of other labourers
among the savages. Could we exert our
selves a little, notwithstanding the pressure
of hard times, who can tell what our Heav
enly Father may do. We expect you be
lieve with us, that the savages are our fel
low creatures, and have precious souls to
be saved or lost. It’ the Redeemer looked
upon one soul worth more than the whole
world, what must be the worth of the ma
ny millions who are perishing for lack of
Divine knowledge. Should you think this
too high a calculation of the worth of souls,
then look to Calvary and see what it cost
the Saviour to purchase his people.
llow truly praiseworthy is the conduct
of our benevolent and liberal brethren, the
Charleston association, who have at their
own charges, employed a missionary for
some years to preach to the Catawba Indi
ans, and perhaps have a teacher to instruct
their youth also. If God has given us all
things richly to enjoy; has blessed us with
bibles and bible opportunities, together
with the unspeakable privilege of hearing
the gospel’s joyful sound; shall we not l
make some use of these good things our
gracious benefactor has so liberally bes
towed upon us, to civilize the heathen, and
teach them the right ways of the Lord ?
But shall we forget the people of our own
state, many of whom are very destitute of
preaching, and are much neglected by our
society. Is it not a criminal neglect,, to
suffer a large extent of our own country to
be without what we call, and really believe
to be, the true light of the Gospel. We
trust those who have thrown in money
heretofore for Missionary purposes, were
actuated by pure and disinterested motives
—many of us are of opinion there is a Mis
sion wanting in our own state of N. Caroli
na. We wish some information at our
next meeting, which will be held in Ra
leigh, first Saturday in August, 1322, wheth
er those who have contributed towards the
Missionary funds, would still think the fund
should be confined to Foreign Missions ; or
whether they are willing it should be in
part, appropriated to send the preached
Gospel into dark and destitute places in our
own benighted country. The General
Bonn!, in a late publication, have recom
mended Domestick Missions in the several
slates in our union, which it may not be im
proper to give the publick in their own
words.—“ Among the resolutions lately
adopted by the Board, they meditate with
pleasure on the plan for bringing Domes
tick Missions into operation ; and in such ‘a
way, as may demonstrate the affinity be
tween the Spirit which creates these, and
that which gives birth to Foreign Missions.
It is proposed, that influential, pious and
zealous ministers of the Gospel, be select
ed from the various parts of the LTnion,
who shall perform preaching tours in desti
tute sections of the country, and make col
lections which shall be in part appropria
ted to meeting the engagements of the
Board with them, and the remainder appli
ed, as collections my have been made, to
the concerns of the Missionary or Educa
tion department. The remuneration, is at
no time to exceed the sum collected. It is
believed that men of a right character and
temper for the work, may be found ; that,
with the blessing of the Lord, the waste
places of the earth may become fruitful,
and a Missionary spirit be greatly promo
ted.”
In the Boston Association, a Missionary
has been travelling for some years past,
the account of which, together with his use
ful labour, has appeared in the Magazine.
Those brethren apply part of their funds
to these Internal or Domestick Missions ;
and also aid the General Board in their
very useful operations.
The Chowan Mission Society in the low
er part of our own State, has six Missiona
ries appointed—these worthy and useful
men, have in part been travelling the past
year, and have been much owned of God.
Brethren Bennet and Newbern, have been
very successful; the Lord has added many
seals to their ministry, and given them souls
for their hire.
Could a Mission be promoted in this and
other parts of the Union, no doubt many
churches would reap great advantage by it.
Many brethren are without preaching;
some by the death or removal of their Pas
tors; others have removed themselves
where the bounds of their habitations is
seldom enlightened by the rays of the sun
of righteousness. How great have been
the advantages derived from itinerant
preaching —This may be, and i no doubt,
in a partial manner kept up ; hut could we
see it carried on as it formerly was in the
days of our brethren Read, Harris, Webber,
Waller, James Childs and many olhers, who
knows what happy effects might result
therefrom. What if some of the prophets
have ascended, is the mantle of Elijah fallen
on none who are left behind ? Some of the
servants of the Lord are weariug out, and
many have finished their course and gone
to the church triumphant, while many we
hope are still left among the saints below,
to bear the burden and toil a while longer;
and some are rising up to fill the place of
those who have finished their warfare;
Could the friends of Zion’s King, and Zion’s
cause, feel a willingness to hold up the
hands anu afford aid to Missionaries to trav
el by aiding the funds, not only to send the
Gospel to foreign perishing Heathens, and
into the wilderness among the American
Savages, but also among the poor perish
ing North Carolinians, who are many, no
doubt, under the influence of the gloomy
god of this world.
We can but feel a sympathetick tender
ness for all who are perishing for lack of
knowledge ; yet as the people of our own
state are, or ought to be near to us, we
should remember the words of the Saviour,
“these things ought ye to have done, and
not to leave the other undone.” The rich
and fertile lands of the Western country,
Georgia,&c.have taken off a number of min
isters from Virginia and North Carolina;
but while there to labour for God
and the good of ajjHLlct us be much en
gaged in prayer WBrod for them, that he
would make them very useful, and revive
his work in our hearts, and in all the
churches, and carry if on wherever it is be
gun; and may our fervent prayers and
cries be so sho J.or;! of the harvest to send
Price $ s 3 ’ so P r * ann - or ’ l
’ ( $3,00 in advance. )
more labourers into his harvest; and may
we encourage the hearts, and strengthen
the hand of those God has given us, that
they may go out into the high ways and
hedges, and compel many to come in, that
his house may be filled. Missionaries, or
travelling preachers, have ever been the
most useful men in the world—witness
Whitfield, Miller, Vanhorn, Gano, £c. &c.
who were like angels flying through the
midst of Heaven, having the everlasting
Gospel to preach to them who dwell on the.
earth.
May a gracious God hasten the time,
when the Gospel of the Redeemer may
spread, the anti-chrisliao powers be over
turned, and true and vita! religion he ex
perimentally known ; a universal reforma
tion take place ; which, may the good Lord
hasten, for Christ’s sake. Amen.
—-*o;:eo
From the .Methodist Magazine,
METHODISM IN THE WESTERN
COUNTRY.
We have received a copy of the Minutes
of the several annual Conferences of the
Methodist Episc. Church, published by the
Book-Agent at Cincinnatti, which includes
the account of four Conferences, viz. Ohio,
Kentucky, Missouri, and Ten. which have
had their sessions since the pblication of
the annual minutes at New York. From
these minutes it appears that they have
had an increase of (including the Mississip
pi Conference,) eleven thousand and fifty
four members during the year ending No
vember, 1821. Sixly-nine preachers were
admitted on trial, seven were located, sev
en are returned as supernumerary, four su
perannuated, one expelled, and two had
died ; so that the increase to the num
ber of effective travelling preachers is
forty-eight.
MISSION A WONG THE CREEK IN
DIANS.
The following letter, dated Augusta, Feb.
23, 1322, directed to the Corresponding
Secretary of the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, will shew the
state of this mission :
Dear Brother,
You have been informed of (he agree
ment entered into by the South-Carolina
Conference, with the Creek Indians; and
some of the circumstances under which that
agreement was concluded. Later accounts
evidence the importance of the underta
king; and give increasing encouragement
to prosecute it.
T. he buildings at our first establishment
are so far advanced as to admit the opening
of a school immediately ; and the good dis
position of the Indians has increased with
the progress of the work.
From the present Conference, we send
twn missionaries into this important field.
Our venerable brother, the Rev. Isaac
Smith, who in the year 1786 was associated
with the first missionaries to South Caroli
na, now offers himself for the Indians! He
goes in charge of the mission; and with
him, his excellent wife. Brother Andrew
Hammill, an elder, is associated with them.
These were not chosen without much pray
er; and heartily offer themselves, and are
most cordially approved by us, for the
great work updn which they are embarked.
In the west of Georgia, (wo other mis
sionaries, Gideon Mason and John J.
Triggs, are employed. Their mission
covers an extensive frontier, lately acquir
ed from the Indians, but already inhabited
by thousands of our citizens. We look
anxiously into Florida and cry to enlarge
our coast. When shall the gospel take the
wings of the morning and fly to the • utter
most parts of the earth! For this, we will
increase our efforts with the approaching
time.
Y ours, in the bonds of the gospel.
WILLIAM M’KENDREf.
[lbid.
MISSION AMONG THE CHOCTAWS.
Extracts from, the Journal kept at May hex.’.
Oct. 1, 1821. A general council, which
has been sitting since the 27th ulf. closed
their session this day. They have organ
ized, in (be North East District, a small
company of 10 men, to act as a patrol, for
the purpose of punishing ofl'enders, collect
ing debts, &c. This is the first instance of
the organization of a civil power among
the Choctaws to execute the laws. Pro
vision was made in the late treaty, by
which they are to receive S2O annually
per man.
Circular from the War Department.
Received by mail from the War Depart
ment, by order of ihe Secretary of War,
the Lancasterian System of Education witlj
improvements. It was accompanied by a
circular, recommending the adoption of the
system in (he schools established for the in
struction of Indian children. The parental
care which the General Government exer
cises over these schools, demands our live
liest gratitude.
[Though so many travellers call at this
station, they are, by donations, and iu oth
er ways, a source of profit to the mission^]
20. Four young gentlemen tarried with
us fast night and a part of this day. Three